The Yourdon Report

I’m giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” in Rochester on May 15th, for a seminar being organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute; it’s an updated version of the presentation I gave in Orlando a month

I’m giving a short presentation on the “future of Web 2.0″ at a CIO roundtable session in Chicago on May 12th. You can download the 14.2MB PDF version of the presentation:

If you’re a Twitter user, you must visit Tweetwheel to have it create a visual representation of your Twitter network — just type “www.tweetwheel.com/yourTwitterID” into your browser, and then sit back and watch it. Here’

Almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about “blogging vs. micro-blogging“. I now have a couple more pieces of data, which I think confirm the points I made in that first blog. During the past month, I’ve written approximately 450 sh

I’ve uploaded about 150 photographs from my recent trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow. If you’re interested, you can see them here on Flickr.

I returned yesterday from my first visit to Russia — which consisted of a week in St. Petersburg and Moscow — and am struggling to provide some observations and impressions that won’t seem superficial to friends and colleagues in bo

I’m giving a presentation on “User reactions to XP/Agile development” to the Agile Development group in Moscow this evening. You’ve got to actually be there (wherever “there” is; hopefully I’ll find out in ti

I’ll be in Detroit on Tuesday, April 15th, giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” at the “Software Best Practices” conference. If you’re not there in person, you’ll miss all of the clever jokes, s

Here’s an intriguing and provocative view of what “Web 2.0″ is all about…

A couple months ago, I posted a long blog about the many reasons I had decided to forego the temptation to order Apple’s new MacBook Air. Too slow, too limited, missing ports and PC card slots, blah blah blah … … and yet … and